UK hardcore legends DESOLATED have revealed all of the details about their long-awaited new album. Finding Peace, the band’s highly-anticipated follow-up to 2019’s A New Realm Of Misery EP, will be released on 30th May via MLVLTD and is set to violently kick the doors down into a new era of DESOLATED.
To celebrate the announcement, the band have shared brand new single ‘Glass Ceiling‘, a devastating groove-laden gem rooted in anger and discontent. The intensifying pressure of the world we live in and its ever-growing societal difficulties lie at the core of the track, its vitriolic bile fuelling a relentless aggression that sees DESOLATED at their most dangerous. Listen to ‘Glass Ceiling’ here.
Speaking on the new single, the band shares:
“The cost of living is set higher than ever, yet the price of life itself is cheap as monstrosities unfold worldwide and war mongers prevail. ‘Glass Ceiling’ embodies the issue of everyone being constantly force-fed nonsense and turned against one another through all that we digest, while being priced out of a reasonable standard of living. The cold hearted system that barely rewards hard work; it’s full weight pressed down upon your neck as you gasp for air but you really you can see through what’s going on above.”
After over five years of long-distance writing, squeezed in between demanding full time work commitments, a million breakdowns in the form of the Whatsapp-hummed voice note, thirty-plus Toby Carvery’s and countless hurdles including the monumental task of switching lead vocalist, DESOLATED are proud to announce the completion of their long awaited new full length album.
Featuring guest spots from Ninebar (London, UK) Whispers (Bangkok, Thailand), and D Bloc (Detroit, MI), Finding Peace has more of a heavy hardcore twist than DESOLATED‘s previous releases and is the band’s best work to date. With Grammy nominated producer Will Putney handling the mix and master, this is what gentrified DESOLATED in 2025 sounds like. Spoiler alert; it’s hard as f*ck. Pre-save the new album here and pre-order a physical copy here.
Shortly after the release of Finding Peace, the band will be performing two very special shows to celebrate its arrival. Taking place at intimate venues in Sheffield and London exactly a week after the album drops, the sets will see DESOLATED unleash tracks from the record for the first time in the only way they know how; violently.
FINDING PEACE ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS
06/06 – Sydney and Matilda, Sheffield SOLD OUT
07/06 – The Underworld, London
London tickets are available here
ABOUT DESOLATED
Scattered across the UK between Sheffield and London, DESOLATED consists of guitarist Richy Unsworth and bassist Dan Ford, alongside Charlie Thorpe (Malevolence) on drums, Les Law (Bun Dem Out / Fifty Calibre) on guitar, and Tony Evans (Idle Hands) as lead vocalist.
Their long-standing connection with MLVLTD dates back to when both bands would play frequently together, with Malevolence and DESOLATED forming the collective “Malevolated”. Now, with Charlie co-running the label and handling drums, the band maintains full creative control while staying true to their DIY roots.
In their writing, the outfit aimed to pick up where they left off with previous album The End, which has seen an explosion of popularity over the last few years, thanks to the new wave of life across the whole sub-genre and momentum of new and exciting bands coming through. With the new album in its final stages, the band have taken The End and its greatest elements and produced another hard hitting, long standing record while seeing what fresh ideas their latest line up of members would bring to the table. With this new release they revisit their roots of Biohazard, Life Of Agony, Irate, Billy Club Sandwich, Shattered Realm and old school New York hardcore influence in general, combined with their own heavy modern flavour, as well as taking inspiration from the new bands that have recently taken over in terms of ignorant heavy hardcore, of which DESOLATED’s latest inspiration also stems from.
Despite taking their recent lack of new musical output, DESOLATED continue to deliver on the live front by still getting out and doing what they love: playing wild shows. Rest assured it’s still the same DESOLATED you know, but heavier, more aggressive and catchy as ever. New album coming 2025.
TRACKLISTING
1. The Stomper
2. Lessons
3. Bite Down
4. Glass Ceiling
5. Never Enough
6. Endless Betrayal
7. Let It Slide
8. Victim 2.0
9. Enemy
10. Dead End 2025
